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Random captchas ("We need to re-confirm you're a human") sounds like a great idea, although annoying to someone just wanting to post a quick 20-word tweet.

But it would have the useful side effect of slowing people down from tweeting impulsively, a practice that demeans the conversation and sometimes ends careers.



The GP post wasn't describing a method for stopping fake accounts, they were describing how to sample what percentage of accounts are fake.




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